Membership is open to
arts, cultural and community organisations and offers
a range of benefits.

Our membership represents a
strong collective of organisations
and demonstrates to our funders
and supporters the impact the arts
can make and the need to support
arts in the community.

How to Join
Download and complete

2011 Membership Information Pack and Registration Form

How much does it cost?
Annual membership is £25 per organisation from 1st January –
31st December 2011.

The benefits include
– Free or subsidised rates to attend
arts training sessions
– Priority marketing and promotion in
the Arts Circular distributed quarterly to over 800 subscribers
–Invitations to attend private views and showcases
– Networking opportunities
– Notification of funding deadlines
– Advice about completing funding applications
– Use of Westminster Arts branding logo
– Voting and nomination rights at AGMs.

Academia Nacional Del Tango (UK Ltd)
www.tangoinlondon.com
The Academia exists to promote Argentine Tango. Through holding the annual London International Tango Festival and by teaching at Las Estrellas Tango Studio.

Age Concern Westminster
www.acwestminster.org.uk
The charity has been providing services for older people in Westminster since 1947. We offer a variety of specialist services which include; Direct Payments, Personal Budgets, Home Services, Information and Advice, Activities, Community Hubs, Volunteering and much more.
—Space for hire

The Anthroposophical Association
www.rsh.anth.org.uk
Dr. Rudolf Steiner (1861 - 1925) offered a comprehensive path of spiritual development and research, which when pursued can contribute to the creation of a more humane world.
—Space for hire

Avenues Youth Project
www.avenues.org.uk
Based in the Green Park ward of Westminster, we cater for young people aged 11-21. We provide a range of activities and projects including Avenues FM Radio Training, dance classes, cheerleading, music recording, cookery, model behaviour and a lot more.
-Space for hire

Bayswater Road Artists Association
www.bayswater-road-artists.co.uk
Established for over 50 years Bayswater Road Sunday market is London’s largest open air art show. Over 250 artists and craft people sell original work every Sunday.
—Pitches for hire

Beauchamp Lodge Settlement
www.beauchamplodge.co.uk
A purpose built electric barge, the floating classroom, on which we deliver learning, leisure and arts activities as we travel along London's canals from our mooring in Little Venice near Paddington Station.
—Space for hire

Benjamin Franklin House
www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org
In the heart of London, just steps from Trafalgar Square is the world’s only remaining Franklin Home. For nearly 16 Years between 1757 and 1775 , Dr Benjamin Franklin, a noted polymath and a founding father of the U.S.A , lived behind it’s door.
—Space for hire

Central London Youth Development
www.clyd.co.uk
Working with young people of diverse background to increase their aspirations and engage them in community matters. To promote social behaviour CLYD has been running many arts and culture related programmes, and facilitating training, employment and further educational activities.
—Space for hire


The Cockpit Theatre
www.cockpittheatre.org.uk
We are a mid-scale receiving venue with 180 seats in thrust and 240 in the round. We present a range of collaborative hires and home grown events. We are also a training venue owned by the City of Westminster College.
—Space for hire

DreamArts
www.dreamarts.org.uk
DreamArts work with young people to help them be their best through quality youth arts. From new urban musicals in the West End and Youth Arts Leadership schemes, where young people run their own projects, to weekly workshops with top professionals, over 400 members each year credit DreamArts with making a difference to their lives.

EKON Arts
www.ekon.org.uk
Set up to explore a whole new range of artistic possibilities across different art forms and help develop partnerships among artists and audiences through the lens of Greek culture and aims to be a dynamic force for new, experimental and alternative art practises across all art forms.

Fitzrovia Noir
fitzrovianoir.wordpress.com
Curation and production of visual art installations. We work with local authorities, academic institutions and a collection of independent spaces.

Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association
Provide drop-in advice and information services on welfare benefits, housing and social services, community development projects and social events and support local groups and tenants associations. We consult on local authority planning applications and produce a community newspaper.

The Hellenic Centre
www.helleniccentre.org
The Hellenic Centre has the complimentary aims of providing a focus for the Hellenic community and promoting an awareness of Hellenic culture in the UK. It offers a programme of exhibitions, lectures, concerts and other cultural events and Greek language courses.


London Print Studio
www.londonprintstudio.org.uk
London Print Studio is a not-for- profit organisation that provides educational resources in the graphic arts for artists, community organisations, education institutions and the public.
—Space for hire

London Ripieno Society
www.londonripieno.co.uk
A community choir, established for nearly 50 years, that rehearses and often performs in Westminster.

Mousetrap Theatre Projects
www.mousetrap.org.uk
A theatre education charity committed to providing opportunities for disadvantaged young people to attend outstanding theatre. Provide subsidised theatre tickets at £5 or less and supported by access, education and audience development programmes.

Movingstage Marionette Company
www.puppetbarge.com
The Puppet Theatre Barge is a traditional marionette theatre on a Thames barge moored in Little Venice. It has been entertaining children, family and adult audiences for over 25 years with quality productions. The company also runs an outreach programme taking shows and puppet making workshops into Westminster primary schools.
—Space for hire

National Youth Jazz Orchestra
www.nyjo.org.uk
A showcase for the country’s best young jazz musicians and aims is to share the talents of exciting young players with as wide a potential audience as possible.

Open Age
www.openage.org.uk
Providing learning, leisure, health and employment related activities in community venues for people aged 50+. Activities include creative and performing arts.

Peabody
www.peabody.org.uk
Housing and Regeneration Agency running an Arts project entitled the Arts Cellar in Bruce House Facility designed to encourage informal learning via creative expression for local people facing unemployment      
—Space for hire

Players Theatre Club
www.playerstheatre.co.uk
Aims to seek and train talented young artistes in traditional music hall techniques and to maintain the tradition of British Music Hall by staging performances.
—Space for hire

Pursuing Independent Paths
www.piponline.org.uk
A Centre which provides support for Adults with Learning Disabilities we work with students, their families and other support networks to develop independent living skills and community integration. Teaching ASDAN Accredited courses and offering activities and training programmes.

RealDeal Theatre
www.realdealtheatre.org.uk
Founded in 2008, Realdeal Theatre aims to bring together writers, actors and directors and introduces new audiences to the best in new writing, especially new sitcoms.

Regents Park Decorative & Fine Arts Society
Provides monthly lectures and outings on subjects relating to all aspects of Fine and Decorative Arts.

The Royal Academy of Arts
www.royalacademy.org.uk
Founded in 1768, under the patronage of George III, is an independent institute led by distinguished artists and architects and dedicated to the wider understanding of the visual arts and architecture through exhibitions, education and debate.

Second Movement
www.secondmovement.org.uk
A registered charity, we were founded six years ago by 3 young people committed to taking opera in a new direction. We perform fully-staged operas, normally one act works.

The Showroom
www.theshowroom.org
The Showroom is a centre for contemporary art that is founded on a collaborative and process driven approach to production, be that artwork, exhibition, discussions, publications, education, knowledge and relationships.
—Space for hire

The Thorney Island Society and friends of St James and The Green Park
An entirely voluntary organisation for Westminster we are a civic society founded in 1985 with special interest in the conservation in Westminster.
-Space for hire

St. Mary Magdalene Music Society
www.st-mary-magdalene.co.uk
Concerts are performed mainly at St Mary Magdalene Church, Little Venice. With a bias towards French music, we are well known for our annual All Souls Day liturgical performances of Requiem Masses on All Souls' Day. We hold annual concerts on Narrow Boats on the Regents Canal, encouraging young performers in a link with Sussex House School, Chelsea. 

Streetwise Opera
www.streetwiseopera.org
Streetwise Opera uses music as a tool to help people who have experienced homelessness move forward in their lives. We do this through a weekly music programme in 11 homeless centres around England and by staging professional opera production.

Theatre Nomad
www.theatrenomad.com
Bringing together theatre makers from around the world working in a variety of theatrical traditions to reinterpret classic texts and create new theatre for new audiences and new situations through performance, workshops and community projects.

The Avenues Youth Project
www.avenues.org.uk
Based in the Queens Park Ward, of Westminster, we cater for young people aged 11-21. We provide a range of activities and projects including Avenues FM Radio training, Dance Classes, Cheerleading, Music Recording, Cookery, Model Behaviour and much more.
—Space for Hire

UK Foundation for Dance
www.m-dancestudio.co.uk
UKFD manages Marylebone Dance Studio ( rehearsal venue for hire, with regular classes open to the public), produces events and touring productions, represents dance artists and undertakes consultations.
—Space for hire

Westminster Cinematic Arts
www.wcastudios.org.uk
Aims to raise awareness of diverse social issues through the power of the Cinematic Arts. Provides training and education in any art form and faciliates arts events.

Wigmore Hall
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Wigmore Hall is an essential platform for the world's most sought after soloists and chamber musicians. It also fosters the careers of talented young artists. Wigmore Hall is committed to reaching communities who do not normally have access to the concert series. Our highly regarded and wide reaching learning programme engages with over 15,000 of all ages and backgrounds.
—Space for hire

Yellow Earth Theatre
www.yellowearth.org
Yellow Earth is a British East Asian Theatre Company that performs in London and tours nationally. The company introduces young people to East Asian Drama through the education and outreach programme and encourages British East Asian artists through various projects.